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<\/strong><\/h1>\nOur Mission<\/strong><\/h1>\nOur mission is to cultivate and empower creative storytellers, writers, and authors from around the world by taking an innovative and collaborative approach to content creation with hybrid publishing.<\/p>\n
Black Ink Books<\/strong> was created to help writers thrive in a community of diverse voices, participating in their own writing journey; to bring screenwriters\u2019 projects to publishing to navigate IP piracy; to motivate, to inspire, and connect with writers at all stages of their careers, in all corners of the globe, and from all walks of life.<\/p>\nAbout Black Ink Books<\/strong><\/h1>\nBlack Ink Books<\/strong> is a new and dynamic creative program that\u2019s designed to turn an idea into a stellar book. We aim to connect diverse, talented voices from all over the world with first-class book publishing professionals who will work with Authors to help break a story, craft characters, offer ideas, give notes, and push Creators to produce their best work at the accelerated pace of our hybrid publishing boutique press.<\/p>\nBlack Ink Books<\/strong> is designed to generate high-quality eBooks and trade books giving authors more leverage in the marketplace, higher percentages in royalty rates, and creative participation over their projects.<\/p>\nBe Bold. Be Daring. Be Courageous. Be Read.<\/b><\/h3>\n
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[\/be_shortparagraph][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces_content” content_placement=”top”][vc_column][be_shortstory history_image_one=”159″ history_image_two=”422″ history_title=”What we’re looking for” history_description_two=”Seeking Fiction<\/b> \u2013 passionate about fiction: novels of urgency, gutsy, terrors of change, and unique and beautiful voices; commercial fiction; literary fiction; mysteries, suspense, thrillers; manuscripts that keep me up at night; make me feel something; and change the world through the triumph of the human spirit.<\/p>\n
Seeking Nonfiction<\/b> \u2013 passionate about memoirs with historic shadow and light. What history, family, economy, culture, race, outsider story, and backstory inform and empower humanity because you lived to tell it?<\/p>\n
Seeking Young Writers Narratives<\/b> \u2013 passionate about supporting young writers\/storytellers. We invite talented young writers with a desire to become writers\/authors (ages 10 \u2013 17). Send us your two-page synopsis of your story for consideration.<\/p>\n
For queries regarding a nonfiction book (memoir), please send a sample chapter, a one-paragraph bio, and a one-paragraph synopsis of your book in the body of your e-mail.” history_description_one=”We believe that the best stories are roadmaps that unlock emotionality and create an indelible impact in the minds of the reader. Black Ink Books<\/b> offers writers who have stories only they can tell, opportunity. We give voice to these storytellers by giving them the instruction, knowledge, and publishing resources that we have distilled and codified in our 23 years of writing, editing, consulting, and publishing. We create access for authors to step into the process \u2013 from idea to manuscript to published book \u2013 transcending knowledge as a writer into wisdom as an author.<\/p>\n
How to Submit<\/b>
\nPlease e-mail a query to black.ink.books.2020@gmail.com<\/b> and put \u201cQuery\u201d<\/b> in the subject line of your e-mail. For queries regarding fiction, please send the first twenty pages in the body of your e-mail, along with a one-paragraph bio and a one-paragraph synopsis.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces_content” css=”.vc_custom_1446461503963{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-color: #efece5 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Writers \u2013 Consultants” service_icon=”be-ink” desc_service=”\u201cThe world is made up of stories; it\u2019s not made up of facts.\u201d ~ Rachel Naomi Remen”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Ambitious Storytelling” service_icon=”be-star” desc_service=”\u201cThe wisdom we imbue is ambitious storytelling . . . stories to transform the human paradigm to its original blueprint of a remarkable species.\u201d”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Television, Film, Books” service_icon=”be-magic” desc_service=”We’d love to read you.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][be_shortparagraph short_title=”Our Authors”]<\/p>\nSEEKING . . . Books, Screenplays, and Teleplays?<\/h2>\n
Here are some of our current titles and log lines.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a professional producer or agent who likes what you read and wants to know more, e-mail me \u2013 black.ink.books.2020@gmail.com. I\u2019ll be more than happy to oblige.<\/p>\n
Denise Andrea Thorbourn \u2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u2022 The Sacred List \u2013 Novel (Action Thriller)<\/strong>
\nPremise: When his friend is murdered and a half-dead woman is dumped at his door, a reluctant spy returns to the job he hates to track the killer and bring him to justice.<\/p>\n\u2022 Man from Shanghai \u2013 Screenplay (Drama)<\/strong>
\nPremise: A noted film producer from Los Angeles investigates the circumstances of four children jailed during the crossfire of the Shanghai Massacre and vows to unmask the con-man to the world.<\/p>\n\u2022 The Man in the Cool Suit \u2013 Screenplay (Murder Mystery)<\/strong>
\nPremise: New Orleans News Photographer DASH MADISON comes to Los Angeles to find his estranged father, an LAPD cop. Before he can unpack his bags, he meets a beautiful woman, discovers a body in her bedroom, becomes a murder suspect and must find his missing father to save his life.<\/p>\n\u2022 The Miracle Children \u2013 Screenplay (Historical Drama)<\/strong>
\nPremise: When Dr. King comes to Birmingham in response to the bombing of four children and the arrest of his team fighting for Civil Rights, two thousand children rise in response to save lives and change a city.<\/p>\nSonya Lazarevic, M.D. \u2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u2022 Aftertaste –<\/strong> The Alchemy of Recovery \u2013 Self-help Book<\/strong>
\nPremise: \u201dYou hold in your hand a bridge from addiction to a new equilibrium of sobriety.\u201d<\/p>\nToni Dianne Holm<\/strong> \u2013<\/h3>\n\u2022 Cosmic Order Bride \u2013 Screenplay (Romantic Comedy)<\/strong>
\nPremise: Desperate to save his family home, a Montana rancher secretly writes successful romance novels, but when his own longing for love results in a cosmic prescription to order a bride\u2014nobody expects an attractive, New York Times Book Reviewer to show up, expose his true identity, discredit his reputation, while falling in love under a canopy of stars in The Last Best Place.<\/p>\n\u2022Vagabonds & Rogues \u2013 TV Pilot Script (Drama\/Fantasy)<\/strong>
\nPremise: \u201cYou can\u2019t tame a world of vagabonds and rogues, but you can tame a handful of bunglers,\u201d The Guide instructs.
\nLogline: A thirteen-year-old boy, an Intuitive, a ghost, The Guide, a billionaire, and a streetwise Robin Hood bungle into a web of rapidly unfolding, atypical family drama to save a ghost’s killer. As these misfits breach the barriers to their quest, they discover\u00a0why<\/i>\u00a0they are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with the Cole family.<\/p>\nVagabonds & Rogues is an atypical family drama that stretches beyond the normal tropes of death and loss, exploring the beyond. These characters push the audience through the ups and downs of the insane and unseen and cosmic plotlines of each season to answer the big questions when death occurs. The story takes place in the 21st century, during the war called ‘the winter of humanity.’ Nothing is as it seems, perfectly set in motion when a man dies leaving his family bewildered, off-kilter, and grieving. As final as this may seem, it is the beginning of a new adventure and the springboard that causes the advent of a ragtag team of extraordinary misfits who enter on cue.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Crazy Clean \u2013\u00a0 TV Pilot Script (Drama\/Comedy)<\/strong>
\nPremise: A mother\/psychiatrist persuades her OCD clients to form a high-class cleaning service for real-life therapy to earn the fee to pay a discredited spy-turned-private-detective to locate her missing 13-year-old son.<\/p>\n\u2022 Beenya Soul \u2013 Novel (Literary Fiction\/Magical Realism)<\/strong>
\nPremise: She comes from southern shores, descendants of African slaves, soldiers, farmers, voodoo vagrants, hunters, Southern women healers, warriors, sea captains, murderers and mystics living off of sand and sea and hope . . . hope that Tula masters all three miracles to heal the sins of the father and her ancestral karma.<\/p>\n\u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/higherheartentertainment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/everyone-300x300.png\")
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Writers Writing Workshops<\/strong><\/h1>\nTO BECOME A BETTER WRITER AND A HUMAN BEING<\/h2>\n“HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?<\/em>” CLASSES<\/h2>\n“You stand on the precipice of a most remarkable time in human history. This epoch is characterized by accelerated technological advancements, social change, vast emotional upheavals, increased intellectual input, and soul awakenings throughout the planet.” This class is simple in presentation, yet grounded in profound words, teachings, tools, exercises, and knowledge. This class gives you the wisdom to answer for yourself: “How Should We Live?” One two-hour online class. Cost: $275<\/p>\n
Questions, contact Toni Holm.\u00a0toniholm@Rollins.edu<\/a><\/p>\n*
\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>HigherHeartEntertainment\/Winter Session Classes may be viewed here<\/a>.<\/h2>\nEvery once in a while, all writers, whether seasoned or novice, need to partake in a refresher course, rub elbows with other writers and step out of your velvet rut<\/em> to remember why you chose to become a writer in the first place.<\/p>\nYou will engage in both group and individual exercises to stretch your abilities and write outside your own self-imposed limitations. How? Take a walk about to discover your genuine writer\u2019s thumbprint and your Signature Genre. Walk away with the writer\u2019s fishing pole . . . not just the fish.<\/p>\n
Current writing workshop offering:<\/strong><\/h2>\nBecoming a Writer<\/strong><\/span> is a beginning workshop for the new and developing writer. You may already have tried your hand at a writing project, or just journaling for years, but writing is in your blood. You want to put thoughts and stories and facts on paper. You want to test the waters and see what it might look like to become a writer. This is the workshop for you to discover whether or not writing is a craft you want to pursue. You will learn about voice, style, character, plot, genres while learning to break some long-held myths about writers. You\u2019ll receive Toni\u2019s 23-Day Writing Tool\u2122 that can be used now and throughout your writing career.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The 4 X 4\u2019s of Character-Driven Storytelling<\/strong><\/span> is a beginning workshop for newbies and adventurous advanced writers. You\u2019ll dive deep into the path and patterns of characters from the point of view of the Sensei of human interconnectedness to self, others, and the cosmos. We’ll work with your character’s 4 bodies and 4 categories of life to create a new approach to character development. This workshop just might change your personal point of view about your own life!<\/p>\n
About Black Ink Books<\/strong><\/h1>\nBlack Ink Books<\/strong> is a new and dynamic creative program that\u2019s designed to turn an idea into a stellar book. We aim to connect diverse, talented voices from all over the world with first-class book publishing professionals who will work with Authors to help break a story, craft characters, offer ideas, give notes, and push Creators to produce their best work at the accelerated pace of our hybrid publishing boutique press.<\/p>\nBlack Ink Books<\/strong> is designed to generate high-quality eBooks and trade books giving authors more leverage in the marketplace, higher percentages in royalty rates, and creative participation over their projects.<\/p>\nBe Bold. Be Daring. Be Courageous. Be Read.<\/b><\/h3>\n
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[\/be_shortparagraph][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces_content” content_placement=”top”][vc_column][be_shortstory history_image_one=”159″ history_image_two=”422″ history_title=”What we’re looking for” history_description_two=”Seeking Fiction<\/b> \u2013 passionate about fiction: novels of urgency, gutsy, terrors of change, and unique and beautiful voices; commercial fiction; literary fiction; mysteries, suspense, thrillers; manuscripts that keep me up at night; make me feel something; and change the world through the triumph of the human spirit.<\/p>\n
Seeking Nonfiction<\/b> \u2013 passionate about memoirs with historic shadow and light. What history, family, economy, culture, race, outsider story, and backstory inform and empower humanity because you lived to tell it?<\/p>\n
Seeking Young Writers Narratives<\/b> \u2013 passionate about supporting young writers\/storytellers. We invite talented young writers with a desire to become writers\/authors (ages 10 \u2013 17). Send us your two-page synopsis of your story for consideration.<\/p>\n
For queries regarding a nonfiction book (memoir), please send a sample chapter, a one-paragraph bio, and a one-paragraph synopsis of your book in the body of your e-mail.” history_description_one=”We believe that the best stories are roadmaps that unlock emotionality and create an indelible impact in the minds of the reader. Black Ink Books<\/b> offers writers who have stories only they can tell, opportunity. We give voice to these storytellers by giving them the instruction, knowledge, and publishing resources that we have distilled and codified in our 23 years of writing, editing, consulting, and publishing. We create access for authors to step into the process \u2013 from idea to manuscript to published book \u2013 transcending knowledge as a writer into wisdom as an author.<\/p>\n
How to Submit<\/b>
\nPlease e-mail a query to black.ink.books.2020@gmail.com<\/b> and put \u201cQuery\u201d<\/b> in the subject line of your e-mail. For queries regarding fiction, please send the first twenty pages in the body of your e-mail, along with a one-paragraph bio and a one-paragraph synopsis.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces_content” css=”.vc_custom_1446461503963{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-color: #efece5 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Writers \u2013 Consultants” service_icon=”be-ink” desc_service=”\u201cThe world is made up of stories; it\u2019s not made up of facts.\u201d ~ Rachel Naomi Remen”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Ambitious Storytelling” service_icon=”be-star” desc_service=”\u201cThe wisdom we imbue is ambitious storytelling . . . stories to transform the human paradigm to its original blueprint of a remarkable species.\u201d”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Television, Film, Books” service_icon=”be-magic” desc_service=”We’d love to read you.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][be_shortparagraph short_title=”Our Authors”]<\/p>\nSEEKING . . . Books, Screenplays, and Teleplays?<\/h2>\n
Here are some of our current titles and log lines.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a professional producer or agent who likes what you read and wants to know more, e-mail me \u2013 black.ink.books.2020@gmail.com. I\u2019ll be more than happy to oblige.<\/p>\n
Denise Andrea Thorbourn \u2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u2022 The Sacred List \u2013 Novel (Action Thriller)<\/strong>
\nPremise: When his friend is murdered and a half-dead woman is dumped at his door, a reluctant spy returns to the job he hates to track the killer and bring him to justice.<\/p>\n\u2022 Man from Shanghai \u2013 Screenplay (Drama)<\/strong>
\nPremise: A noted film producer from Los Angeles investigates the circumstances of four children jailed during the crossfire of the Shanghai Massacre and vows to unmask the con-man to the world.<\/p>\n\u2022 The Man in the Cool Suit \u2013 Screenplay (Murder Mystery)<\/strong>
\nPremise: New Orleans News Photographer DASH MADISON comes to Los Angeles to find his estranged father, an LAPD cop. Before he can unpack his bags, he meets a beautiful woman, discovers a body in her bedroom, becomes a murder suspect and must find his missing father to save his life.<\/p>\n\u2022 The Miracle Children \u2013 Screenplay (Historical Drama)<\/strong>
\nPremise: When Dr. King comes to Birmingham in response to the bombing of four children and the arrest of his team fighting for Civil Rights, two thousand children rise in response to save lives and change a city.<\/p>\nSonya Lazarevic, M.D. \u2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u2022 Aftertaste –<\/strong> The Alchemy of Recovery \u2013 Self-help Book<\/strong>
\nPremise: \u201dYou hold in your hand a bridge from addiction to a new equilibrium of sobriety.\u201d<\/p>\nToni Dianne Holm<\/strong> \u2013<\/h3>\n\u2022 Cosmic Order Bride \u2013 Screenplay (Romantic Comedy)<\/strong>
\nPremise: Desperate to save his family home, a Montana rancher secretly writes successful romance novels, but when his own longing for love results in a cosmic prescription to order a bride\u2014nobody expects an attractive, New York Times Book Reviewer to show up, expose his true identity, discredit his reputation, while falling in love under a canopy of stars in The Last Best Place.<\/p>\n\u2022Vagabonds & Rogues \u2013 TV Pilot Script (Drama\/Fantasy)<\/strong>
\nPremise: \u201cYou can\u2019t tame a world of vagabonds and rogues, but you can tame a handful of bunglers,\u201d The Guide instructs.
\nLogline: A thirteen-year-old boy, an Intuitive, a ghost, The Guide, a billionaire, and a streetwise Robin Hood bungle into a web of rapidly unfolding, atypical family drama to save a ghost’s killer. As these misfits breach the barriers to their quest, they discover\u00a0why<\/i>\u00a0they are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with the Cole family.<\/p>\nVagabonds & Rogues is an atypical family drama that stretches beyond the normal tropes of death and loss, exploring the beyond. These characters push the audience through the ups and downs of the insane and unseen and cosmic plotlines of each season to answer the big questions when death occurs. The story takes place in the 21st century, during the war called ‘the winter of humanity.’ Nothing is as it seems, perfectly set in motion when a man dies leaving his family bewildered, off-kilter, and grieving. As final as this may seem, it is the beginning of a new adventure and the springboard that causes the advent of a ragtag team of extraordinary misfits who enter on cue.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Crazy Clean \u2013\u00a0 TV Pilot Script (Drama\/Comedy)<\/strong>
\nPremise: A mother\/psychiatrist persuades her OCD clients to form a high-class cleaning service for real-life therapy to earn the fee to pay a discredited spy-turned-private-detective to locate her missing 13-year-old son.<\/p>\n\u2022 Beenya Soul \u2013 Novel (Literary Fiction\/Magical Realism)<\/strong>
\nPremise: She comes from southern shores, descendants of African slaves, soldiers, farmers, voodoo vagrants, hunters, Southern women healers, warriors, sea captains, murderers and mystics living off of sand and sea and hope . . . hope that Tula masters all three miracles to heal the sins of the father and her ancestral karma.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Writers Writing Workshops<\/strong><\/h1>\nTO BECOME A BETTER WRITER AND A HUMAN BEING<\/h2>\n“HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?<\/em>” CLASSES<\/h2>\n“You stand on the precipice of a most remarkable time in human history. This epoch is characterized by accelerated technological advancements, social change, vast emotional upheavals, increased intellectual input, and soul awakenings throughout the planet.” This class is simple in presentation, yet grounded in profound words, teachings, tools, exercises, and knowledge. This class gives you the wisdom to answer for yourself: “How Should We Live?” One two-hour online class. Cost: $275<\/p>\n
Questions, contact Toni Holm.\u00a0toniholm@Rollins.edu<\/a><\/p>\n*
\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>HigherHeartEntertainment\/Winter Session Classes may be viewed here<\/a>.<\/h2>\nEvery once in a while, all writers, whether seasoned or novice, need to partake in a refresher course, rub elbows with other writers and step out of your velvet rut<\/em> to remember why you chose to become a writer in the first place.<\/p>\nYou will engage in both group and individual exercises to stretch your abilities and write outside your own self-imposed limitations. How? Take a walk about to discover your genuine writer\u2019s thumbprint and your Signature Genre. Walk away with the writer\u2019s fishing pole . . . not just the fish.<\/p>\n
Current writing workshop offering:<\/strong><\/h2>\nBecoming a Writer<\/strong><\/span> is a beginning workshop for the new and developing writer. You may already have tried your hand at a writing project, or just journaling for years, but writing is in your blood. You want to put thoughts and stories and facts on paper. You want to test the waters and see what it might look like to become a writer. This is the workshop for you to discover whether or not writing is a craft you want to pursue. You will learn about voice, style, character, plot, genres while learning to break some long-held myths about writers. You\u2019ll receive Toni\u2019s 23-Day Writing Tool\u2122 that can be used now and throughout your writing career.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The 4 X 4\u2019s of Character-Driven Storytelling<\/strong><\/span> is a beginning workshop for newbies and adventurous advanced writers. You\u2019ll dive deep into the path and patterns of characters from the point of view of the Sensei of human interconnectedness to self, others, and the cosmos. We’ll work with your character’s 4 bodies and 4 categories of life to create a new approach to character development. This workshop just might change your personal point of view about your own life!<\/p>\n
Black Ink Books<\/strong> is designed to generate high-quality eBooks and trade books giving authors more leverage in the marketplace, higher percentages in royalty rates, and creative participation over their projects.<\/p>\n [\/be_shortparagraph][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces_content” content_placement=”top”][vc_column][be_shortstory history_image_one=”159″ history_image_two=”422″ history_title=”What we’re looking for” history_description_two=”Seeking Fiction<\/b> \u2013 passionate about fiction: novels of urgency, gutsy, terrors of change, and unique and beautiful voices; commercial fiction; literary fiction; mysteries, suspense, thrillers; manuscripts that keep me up at night; make me feel something; and change the world through the triumph of the human spirit.<\/p>\n Seeking Nonfiction<\/b> \u2013 passionate about memoirs with historic shadow and light. What history, family, economy, culture, race, outsider story, and backstory inform and empower humanity because you lived to tell it?<\/p>\n Seeking Young Writers Narratives<\/b> \u2013 passionate about supporting young writers\/storytellers. We invite talented young writers with a desire to become writers\/authors (ages 10 \u2013 17). Send us your two-page synopsis of your story for consideration.<\/p>\n For queries regarding a nonfiction book (memoir), please send a sample chapter, a one-paragraph bio, and a one-paragraph synopsis of your book in the body of your e-mail.” history_description_one=”We believe that the best stories are roadmaps that unlock emotionality and create an indelible impact in the minds of the reader. Black Ink Books<\/b> offers writers who have stories only they can tell, opportunity. We give voice to these storytellers by giving them the instruction, knowledge, and publishing resources that we have distilled and codified in our 23 years of writing, editing, consulting, and publishing. We create access for authors to step into the process \u2013 from idea to manuscript to published book \u2013 transcending knowledge as a writer into wisdom as an author.<\/p>\n How to Submit<\/b> Here are some of our current titles and log lines.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re a professional producer or agent who likes what you read and wants to know more, e-mail me \u2013 black.ink.books.2020@gmail.com. I\u2019ll be more than happy to oblige.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Sacred List \u2013 Novel (Action Thriller)<\/strong> \u2022 Man from Shanghai \u2013 Screenplay (Drama)<\/strong> \u2022 The Man in the Cool Suit \u2013 Screenplay (Murder Mystery)<\/strong> \u2022 The Miracle Children \u2013 Screenplay (Historical Drama)<\/strong> \u2022 Aftertaste –<\/strong> The Alchemy of Recovery \u2013 Self-help Book<\/strong> \u2022 Cosmic Order Bride \u2013 Screenplay (Romantic Comedy)<\/strong> \u2022Vagabonds & Rogues \u2013 TV Pilot Script (Drama\/Fantasy)<\/strong> Vagabonds & Rogues is an atypical family drama that stretches beyond the normal tropes of death and loss, exploring the beyond. These characters push the audience through the ups and downs of the insane and unseen and cosmic plotlines of each season to answer the big questions when death occurs. The story takes place in the 21st century, during the war called ‘the winter of humanity.’ Nothing is as it seems, perfectly set in motion when a man dies leaving his family bewildered, off-kilter, and grieving. As final as this may seem, it is the beginning of a new adventure and the springboard that causes the advent of a ragtag team of extraordinary misfits who enter on cue.<\/p>\n \u2022 Crazy Clean \u2013\u00a0 TV Pilot Script (Drama\/Comedy)<\/strong> \u2022 Beenya Soul \u2013 Novel (Literary Fiction\/Magical Realism)<\/strong> \u00a0 <\/p>\n “You stand on the precipice of a most remarkable time in human history. This epoch is characterized by accelerated technological advancements, social change, vast emotional upheavals, increased intellectual input, and soul awakenings throughout the planet.” This class is simple in presentation, yet grounded in profound words, teachings, tools, exercises, and knowledge. This class gives you the wisdom to answer for yourself: “How Should We Live?” One two-hour online class. Cost: $275<\/p>\n Questions, contact Toni Holm.\u00a0toniholm@Rollins.edu<\/a><\/p>\n * \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>HigherHeartEntertainment\/ Every once in a while, all writers, whether seasoned or novice, need to partake in a refresher course, rub elbows with other writers and step out of your velvet rut<\/em> to remember why you chose to become a writer in the first place.<\/p>\n You will engage in both group and individual exercises to stretch your abilities and write outside your own self-imposed limitations. How? Take a walk about to discover your genuine writer\u2019s thumbprint and your Signature Genre. Walk away with the writer\u2019s fishing pole . . . not just the fish.<\/p>\n Becoming a Writer<\/strong><\/span> is a beginning workshop for the new and developing writer. You may already have tried your hand at a writing project, or just journaling for years, but writing is in your blood. You want to put thoughts and stories and facts on paper. You want to test the waters and see what it might look like to become a writer. This is the workshop for you to discover whether or not writing is a craft you want to pursue. You will learn about voice, style, character, plot, genres while learning to break some long-held myths about writers. You\u2019ll receive Toni\u2019s 23-Day Writing Tool\u2122 that can be used now and throughout your writing career.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 4 X 4\u2019s of Character-Driven Storytelling<\/strong><\/span> is a beginning workshop for newbies and adventurous advanced writers. You\u2019ll dive deep into the path and patterns of characters from the point of view of the Sensei of human interconnectedness to self, others, and the cosmos. We’ll work with your character’s 4 bodies and 4 categories of life to create a new approach to character development. This workshop just might change your personal point of view about your own life!<\/p>\nBe Bold. Be Daring. Be Courageous. Be Read.<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\nPlease e-mail a query to black.ink.books.2020@gmail.com<\/b> and put \u201cQuery\u201d<\/b> in the subject line of your e-mail. For queries regarding fiction, please send the first twenty pages in the body of your e-mail, along with a one-paragraph bio and a one-paragraph synopsis.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces_content” css=”.vc_custom_1446461503963{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-color: #efece5 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Writers \u2013 Consultants” service_icon=”be-ink” desc_service=”\u201cThe world is made up of stories; it\u2019s not made up of facts.\u201d ~ Rachel Naomi Remen”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Ambitious Storytelling” service_icon=”be-star” desc_service=”\u201cThe wisdom we imbue is ambitious storytelling . . . stories to transform the human paradigm to its original blueprint of a remarkable species.\u201d”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][be_listfeature title_service=”Television, Film, Books” service_icon=”be-magic” desc_service=”We’d love to read you.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][be_shortparagraph short_title=”Our Authors”]<\/p>\nSEEKING . . . Books, Screenplays, and Teleplays?<\/h2>\n
Denise Andrea Thorbourn \u2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nPremise: When his friend is murdered and a half-dead woman is dumped at his door, a reluctant spy returns to the job he hates to track the killer and bring him to justice.<\/p>\n
\nPremise: A noted film producer from Los Angeles investigates the circumstances of four children jailed during the crossfire of the Shanghai Massacre and vows to unmask the con-man to the world.<\/p>\n
\nPremise: New Orleans News Photographer DASH MADISON comes to Los Angeles to find his estranged father, an LAPD cop. Before he can unpack his bags, he meets a beautiful woman, discovers a body in her bedroom, becomes a murder suspect and must find his missing father to save his life.<\/p>\n
\nPremise: When Dr. King comes to Birmingham in response to the bombing of four children and the arrest of his team fighting for Civil Rights, two thousand children rise in response to save lives and change a city.<\/p>\nSonya Lazarevic, M.D. \u2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nPremise: \u201dYou hold in your hand a bridge from addiction to a new equilibrium of sobriety.\u201d<\/p>\nToni Dianne Holm<\/strong> \u2013<\/h3>\n
\nPremise: Desperate to save his family home, a Montana rancher secretly writes successful romance novels, but when his own longing for love results in a cosmic prescription to order a bride\u2014nobody expects an attractive, New York Times Book Reviewer to show up, expose his true identity, discredit his reputation, while falling in love under a canopy of stars in The Last Best Place.<\/p>\n
\nPremise: \u201cYou can\u2019t tame a world of vagabonds and rogues, but you can tame a handful of bunglers,\u201d The Guide instructs.
\nLogline: A thirteen-year-old boy, an Intuitive, a ghost, The Guide, a billionaire, and a streetwise Robin Hood bungle into a web of rapidly unfolding, atypical family drama to save a ghost’s killer. As these misfits breach the barriers to their quest, they discover\u00a0why<\/i>\u00a0they are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with the Cole family.<\/p>\n
\nPremise: A mother\/psychiatrist persuades her OCD clients to form a high-class cleaning service for real-life therapy to earn the fee to pay a discredited spy-turned-private-detective to locate her missing 13-year-old son.<\/p>\n
\nPremise: She comes from southern shores, descendants of African slaves, soldiers, farmers, voodoo vagrants, hunters, Southern women healers, warriors, sea captains, murderers and mystics living off of sand and sea and hope . . . hope that Tula masters all three miracles to heal the sins of the father and her ancestral karma.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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